Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

...my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan)

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.